Chevrolet recorded the 10th consecutive quarter of sales growth upon the completion of the first quarter of 2013. It also marks an all-time global quarterly sales record, with 1.18 million sales worldwide. That makes up literally half of all General Motors global Q1 2013 sales, which stands at 2.36 million vehicles. That’s an increase of 3.6 percent, outpacing the industry which was up 1.5 percent, compared with the same period in 2012.
The largest market for Chevrolet was by far and away the United States, selling roughly 469,000 units. The comes the Chinese market, at around 165,000, followed closely by Brazil, at around 141,000.
Lastly, the Chevrolet Cruze has now surpassed two million global sales since its launch in 2009.
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Europe must really be weak as they did not even list their sales.
But also consider they did not add in the sales from Holden here too. Holden’s line up for the most is mostly made up with Chevys.
Well Canada really isn’t a surprise, if you live here you would understand.
Simply put, I have never really seen any new chevy’s on the road, if I have its not very often.
Austin, I’m not sure where you are in Canada. In many parts there are hardly any Chevys. Out here on the Prairies, there are a lot of pickups and SUVs, popular choices because of 4×4/AWD. But, there are hardly any Chevy cars on the road here because Chevy refuses to put AWD in any of them. So, competitors like VW and even Subaru crush Chevy for car sales here. I often wonder if it’s the same in the U.S. snowbelt, where there is a huge chunk of the U.S. population. I think Chevy is missing out.
I do not know why you Canadians are afraid of the snow?
Living on the south eastern edge of Lake Erie we get a lot of snow and you can’t fling a dead cat and not hit a Chevy.
I really do not understand this AWD drama unless you live way out where there are no plows or if you have a really long bad driveway.
Here in the American snow belt AWD out side SUV’s is a uncommon thing.
I have driven a RWD vehicle all my life till just a couple years ago and never had any issues but one of my own stupidity. Never drive too fast in 8 inches of snow in a big block El Camino with no weigh in the rear. I almost saved it.
The last few years I have used a HHR SS and literally pushed the snow with my front bumper just with Goodyear Triple Tread All Seasons.
The only time I have had issues getting around is when I get the white knucklers out there that want to drive 15 MPH when the roads are not all that bad.
We got by for about 100 years with out AWD and 75 of those years with piss poor bias tires just fine I really wonder why many today can not drive or get by with FWD or RWD with stability control and traction control on tires that are light years ahead of what we had.
I so see a use of AWD in some performance applications where the vehicle will just not hook up with the power it has on dry pavement. Those cars are around but rare.
I think people anymore just never learn car control. Heck most cars it is damn near impossible to even do a donut let alone learn car control.
Anyways we have a ton of GM cars here in the Midwest most are FWD or 4×4 trucks. Snow is not a factor to us in the snow belt. It is merely a inconvenience.
Note I do see Subaru’s but a VW AWD I can not tell you the last time I saw one. A rare Benz or CTS but that is about it.
It is very rare to see a 300 AWD or even a Taurus. I think I read Ford builds them but I have yet to see one on the road.
Scott you must be in Cleveland, have to say I lived in that area and agree if you are a GM fan that and other midwest and heartland Citys are the place to Live. Chicago Metro on the other hand depending on where you live, driving a GM vehicle you are definately in the minority… Tons of German and Japanese vehicles… But living in Chicago is like living in another country, very diverse, I enjoy that…
having driven a subaru legacy for three years as well as other cars, i did notice a significant advantage in highway driving in the snow. i’ll prob go with AWD from now frankly.
I did get off topic by staying on the snow bit. I also meant to say that AWD enables a car to be a performance car as well. For a long time GM has had FWD vehicles and tried to call them “sport sedans”, but that notion is a joke as we all know. They just make themselves look bad trying to claim that. Performance cars have to be RWD or AWD. It sure would be nice to see a smallish, affordable RWD/AWD car spun off a shortened Alpha platform. :))
The truth is for Performance RWD, AWD and FWD all apply if done properly and all can fail if not done properly.
I have driven some AWD applications that were just piss poor due to cheap AWD systems. Also adding AWD to a vehicle with too little power is counter productive as it will take power too run it.
We built a AWD 32 Ford at work with a ZR1 rear end and a Syclone front end. It take 175 HP to drive the front drive. Many people forget about this drive line parasitic drag.
Now on the better system like the Haldex they can be more efficient but it still is a trade off with traction vs. performance. The 32 was much faster in the quarter mile in 2WD but much faster in 0-60 in AWD.
As for FWD it all depends on how it is tuned. I drive a HHR SS much the same as the Cobalt SS. The suspension was done by the GM Performance Group to a F5 suspension package. I can tell you I can keep up with the best of them. The car is most impressive on back road where surfaces are uneven. It can make you stupid fast with out the need to work hard at it. Mark Steilow the builder of many very high performance Camaro’s featured often in Hot Rod is the GM tuner who did most of the work.
Note that the Cobalt SS Turbo was only 2 seconds slower around the Nurburgring with only a 260 HP 4 cylinder. My HHR in stock tune would tour the ring just 15-20 seconds slower too. All were in the 8 min range and 8 mins on the green hell is Impressive.
While I agree the Malbu SS was a Joke do not discount all the FWD vehicles as ones like my SS had people on them like Mark Stielow and even John Hinerency. These were not just cars they pumped the bars and springs up on they dug down and did what was needed. Today the GM performance people are integrated into the product from the start. This is why new products like the Cruze and Regal are so good even in normal FE2 mode.
The only negative with the FWD in my SS is the weight transfer and the ability to spin the front tires. The computer helps but I have spun the front tires even rolling at 50 MPH. Taking off the weight loads the back and unloads the front and 300 HP will spin them. The first time I did it I thought I broke something when the traction control light came on. But either way FWD done right can be very good at performance too. But again like AWD you have to do it right. Thank God GM looks like they have learned from the past.